Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boot is one of the highest-grossing films in German history. It provides the audience with its favorite (American) kind of entertainment, while soothing consciences about any collective guilt. These men are good; They are soldiers, not Nazis, Mostly they are dark-haired, Southern-spoken. Only one "overgrows Hitlerjugend," as the captain calls him, shows a tendency toward uniform-worship and blond Aryan arrogance. The tall, chisel-cheeked heroes of Leni Riefenstahl could never fit in the low ceilings and grime of a submarine...
Downtown Hollister could be mistaken for a Trailways comfort stop. Diagonal parking off San Benito Street allows pickup-truck owners to park comfortably and shop at shabby stores with dusty windows. Normally San Benito Street is dark by 9 o'clock, except for the glare of neon from car dealerships and fast-food kiosks. Two blocks away, in a tree-shaded neighborhood of modest bungalows, is the new county administration building. The old building, a Victorian pile put up in 1886, was destroyed in 1961. You guessed it: an earthquake and 400 aftershocks did the damage...
...warden stops. Silhouetted behind him is a high metal fence topped by barbed wire. He peers suspiciously into a barred window. Inside, everything is dark and quiet. Only the heavy breathing of the sleeping men is audible. Through the black of night can be glimpsed twelve steel cots that have been pushed together and stacked to the ceiling in the cell. Earlier the prisoners had formed a choir. Singing through the slightly opened window, they had intoned: "Unto Thee, Lord, we call: restore a free Fatherland...
...Polish, the word for snowman, balwan, has a second meaning: blockhead or dummy. Prisoners at the Bialoleka detention camp no doubt had that ambiguity in mind when they dressed a snowman in a general's cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. The repercussions were recounted in From Day to Day, an underground Solidarity bulletin that was closed down by security forces in Wroclaw last week...
...that's Jaruzelski," the prisoners argued. The commandant was adamant, threatening the detainees with all sorts of punishments if they did not obey his orders. In mock obedience, one of them approached the snowman and knocked off his cap, epaulets, decorations and dark glasses. Then, with one decisive stroke, he chopped off its head...